Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

The West has political prisoners.

I'm usually the last person to know.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.